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It was anticipated NBC would broadcast repeats of Leno's programme, The Tonight Show, plus Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Saturday Night Live from Monday if the walkout went ahead, the Hollywood Reporter said. It also said old episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report would be screened under contingency plans by the Comedy Central channel.

The study also mentions that more than half the children in the study have TVs in their bedrooms, more than three-quarters have McDonald's toys at home, and one-third ate at McDonald's more than once a week. >

Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's computers made edits to the page of Iran's president.

The tool, developed by US researchers, trawls a list of 5.3m edits and matches them to the net address of the editor.

include tweaks to the profile of former CIA chief Porter Goss and celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey.

The CIA has a vital mission in protecting the United States, and the focus of this agency is there, on that decisive work."

October 2005

Walden O'Dell, chief executive of the company, which revealed that he had been "a top fund-raiser" for George Bush.

The government was concerned that the images, which included views of the entrances to military bases, were a threat. Gen. Gene Renuart, head of the military command responsible for homeland defense, said, "It actually shows where all the guards are.

It shows how the barriers go up and down. It shows how to get in and out of buildings. I think that poses a real security risk for our military installations."

Freedom of information and security butt heads once again.

The Pentagon said that Google (NSDQ: > GOOG > )'s Street Views is > a threat to national security > and made Google pull images taken on streets near U.S. military bases. >

The question remains whether the government had the right to request that the images be removed.

Street Views has caused controversy from the start. Many privacy advocates claimed that even though images were taken in public places -- where no reasonable assumption of privacy really exists -- people were being exposed doing things they might not wish to have plastered on the Internet for all to see.

man was pictured exiting a San Francisco strip club.

woman was shown sunbathing

Complaints have even included a woman asking that a picture of her cat be taken down, a request Google denied."

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.

77 bushels from the non-GM one.

modified crop produced only 70 bushels

Monsanto GM soybean and an almost identical conventional variety in the same field.

The GM crop – engineered to resist Monsanto's own weedkiller, Roundup – recovered only when he added extra manganese, leading to suggestions that the modification hindered the crop's take-up of the essential element from the soil.

it takes time to modify a plant

while this is being done, better conventional ones are being developed.

that the very process of modification depresses productivity.

GM cotton in the US, where the total US crop declined even as GM technology took over.

Internal Environmental Protection Agency documents and e-mails, obtained by the advocacy group Environmental Defense, show attempts over the past two years to blunt state efforts to make their plants drastically reduce mercury pollution instead of trading for credits that would let them continue it.

An EPA official said the agency's job "is not to pressure states."

The federal plan capped overall mercury releases from power plants nationwide. But it allowed plants to avoid reductions by purchasing emission credits. Critics have said that creates "hot spots" of mercury releases harmful to communities.

A neurotoxin linked to learning disabilities, mercury is most dangerous to fetuses, infants and small children, usually when pregnant women or children eat mercury contaminated fish.

"There was an extraordinary degree of aggressiveness by EPA in pressing states to abandon a more protective mercury program. EPA devoted enormous effort to preventing states from doing more," said Vickie Patton, a lawyer for Environmental Defense.

Over 30 states have repudiated in some form EPA's rules by outlawing trading, accelerated compliance or adopted much more stringent emission levels

reduce mercury emissions by 90%

No word on price

Dingell, D-Dearborn

doesn't think the auto industry should be the target in that bill.

Dingell toured the auto show Tuesday with Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, and met with officials of Detroit's Big Three auto companies

EPA decision prevents different standards for different states

there's "going to be a need for a shared burden" among automakers, oil companies and utilities. They all will have to "belly up to the bar."

television may be influencing the types of foods that adolescents choose to eat because of the advertisements they see.

lthough watching TV negatively impacts the nutritional quality of food children eat at family meals, children engaged in regular family meals did eat healthier foods than children in families who did not eat regular meals

importance of family meals.

Use the time to catch up with your children on whatever is going on in their lives,”

The Project EAT study was published in the September/October issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

Fresh garlic was used at a concentration equal to eating two cloves.

“When these garlic compounds are metabolized to H2S in the vascular system, the H2S targets membrane channels and causes smooth muscle cells to relax,”

The research team examined molecules in garlic called polysulfides and their ability to liberate H2S within cells.

he findings appear in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

72 percent vessel relaxation in rat arteries.

protected hearts from the tissue and cell damage often seen in heart attack patients.

H2S is a toxic, flammable gas responsible for the smell of rotten eggs

It’s also produced naturally by the body in small amounts, and as age advances, H2S production dwindles.

ot entirely clear

limiting oxidative damage in cells

reventing platelet aggregation, which can trigger a heart attack or stroke, and in limiting cancer growth and the progression of several diseases is well documented

approved by Congress with unusual bipartisan support

Bush and his backers argue that the bill would be a step toward federalization of health care, and that it would steer the program away from its core purpose of providing insurance for poor children and toward covering children from middle-class families

one lawmaker who is usually allied with the president promised to try to corral votes to defeat his veto

“It is estimated that if this program were to become law, one out of every three persons that would subscribe to the new expanded Schip would leave private insurance,” the president said

an irresponsible use of the veto pen

“absolutely confident” that there was strong enough opposition in the House to sustain a veto

president who is willing to throw away a half trillion dollars in Iraq is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that amount to bring health care to American children

“heartless veto” showed how “detached President Bush is from the priorities of the American people.”

“Today the president showed the nation his true priorities: $700 billion for a war in Iraq, but no health care for low-income kids.”

he has resorted to political and ideological gamesmanship rather than seek a bipartisan solution that would protect this nation’s most vulnerable children.”

vote their conscience or join the president in putting ideology above kids.”

“It won’t even cover kids on the program today, much less reach out to cover more kids.”

send me the bill, I will veto it, and then we will get about the business of trying to find some common ground

"Mice are naturally terrified of cats, and usually panic or flee at the smell of one. But mice with certain nasal cells removed through genetic engineering didn't display any fear," said research team leader Ko Kobayakawa.

In his experiment, the genetically altered mice approached cats, even snuggled up to them and played with them.

help researchers shed further light on how the brain processes information about the outside world.

how to control it.

"If we follow the pathway of related signals in the brain, I think we could discover what kind of networks in the brain are important for controlling fear."

grant legal immunity to telecommunications firms that helped the government in its warrantless anti-terrorism efforts.

retired

carried no security clearance

documents in his possession were not classified

without obtaining a court order.

government's depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists

usage patterns and for content.

"AT&T is fully committed to protecting our customers' privacy. We do not comment on matters of national security,"

The diagram showed splitters glass prisms that split signals from each network into two identical copies

Global biofuel production has tripled from 4.8 billion gallons in 2000 to about 16 billion in 2007, but still accounts for less than three percent of the global transportation fuel supply, according to US Department of Agriculture figures

Concerns about energy security, climate change and soaring oil prices drove policymakers and scientists to develop alternative energy sources that would allow them to break their dependence on foreign oil.

n the case of corn, it is thought that competing food and feed demands on grain supplies and prices will eventually limit expansion of grain-ethanol capacity, so researchers have begun to explore alternative plant sources for second-generation or cellulosic biofuels.

the researchers reported that newer breeds of switchgrass have yields 20-30 percent higher than earlier strains.

Universal and Apple still have 90 days to work out their differences, but with the upcoming release of Hulu, NBC Universal's own stab at online television (in partnership with Fox) it seems unlikely that NBC will change its mind.

Apple has come out swinging with a press release that says the deal between the companies fell through after “Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode, which would have resulted in the retail price to consumers increasing to $4.99 per episode from the current $1.99.

ABC, CBS, FOX and and some 50 cable networks will continue to offer downloads through iTunes at $1.99 per episode.

YouTube said it was trying to avoid pre-rolls that precede the main feature at sites like Microsoft Corp.'s MSN

internal tests show more than 70 percent of people give up when they see a pre-roll. By contrast, less than 10 percent decide to close an overlay, which they can exit by clicking on an "X" in a corner.

The overlay format also gives advertisers more flexibility, he said, because they aren't constrained to keeping a video ad at 15 or 30 seconds to avoid defection.

YouTube, which Google Inc. bought last year for $1.76 billion

YouTube generated about $15 million in revenue last year

$20 per thousand viewers

For home exercisers, the number was 40 percent; for the placebo group, 31 percent.

They should know: it's their machine, they designed it and they've been telling everyone for a while that their research shows it's safe.

The lawsuit filed by a group of Hawaii residents is alleging that not enough safety checks have been made by CERN to prevent disaster when the LHC goes live in the coming weeks.

It may "create unsafe conditions of physics" which may have disastrous effects. How? Well, you may imagine a micro black hole gobbling up everything unstoppably, while a strangelet (a hypothetical clump of particles including strange quarks) may run amok converting all nearby matter into strange matter, also wrecking the Earth.

James Gillies, a CERN spokesman, suggests this is rubbish in this response to the New Scientist: "The LHC will start up this year, and it will produce all sorts of exciting new physics and knowledge about the universe." It's no threat at all, he says: "A year from now, the world will still be here." The LHC is actually designed to probe the boundaries of physics, and while a 2003 safety study did conceed that micro black holes or magnetic monopoles may be formed, they would be short-lived and offer no threat.

One of the greatest challenges in battling HIV is the virus' ability to mutate and evade medications.

This means the virus cannot get out of the cells to infect other cells, thereby blocking the spread of the virus."

"This means that TRIM22 is an essential part of our body's ability to fight off HIV. The results are very exciting because they show that our bodies have a gene that is capable of stopping the spread of HIV."

When we put this gene in cells, it prevents the assembly of the HIV virus," said Barr

drugs are unable to eradicate the virus.

Barr and his team have discovered a gene that could potentially do the job naturally.

in the future the idea would be to develop drugs or vaccines that can mimic the effects of this gene."

figure out why this gene does not work in people infected with HIV

gene's ability to battle other viruses.